Plans to a create a tidal lagoon power station in the Severn Estuary that could necessitate 10% of the UK's electricity demands have been submitted.
The £850m venture will see the construction of a six-mile, u-shaped seawall with underwater turbines that will harness incoming and outgoing tides from Swansea docks to the new Fabian Way campus at Swansea University. The tidal lagoon would comprise an impounding “breakwater or seawall” capable of containing 11 square kms (4 sq miles) of seawater. The project…
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